Senior Product Security Advisor

Cybersecurity Sr. Specialist - St. Paul, MN

Location:

St. Paul, MN

Project Duration: 6+ Months contract

Pay Rate: $60/hr on W2

• Proven senior advisory or consulting background, with direct engagement in product security decision-making.
• Ability to establish credibility quickly with engineering and architecture teams, especially in white boarding or design sessions.
• Demonstrated experience providing real-world examples of solving security challenges in production environments.
• Strong working knowledge of application security principles, with sufficient coding familiarity to guide developers (deep engineering expertise not mandatory).

• Security Advisor / Security Consultant
• Application Security Architect
• Business Information Security Officer (BISO)
• Cybersecurity Architect (product-focused)

• Exposure to medical device environments or other highly regulated industries.
• Understanding of global regulatory frameworks impacting healthcare or large-scale consumer technologies.
• Experience working on products with large-scale user impact.
• Candidates must demonstrate authentic, experience-based knowledge (no reliance on AI-generated responses).
• Strong emphasis on behavioral and situational responses grounded in real work.
• Openness about knowledge gaps is valued over over generalization.

• Tooling experience is flexible and dependent on product environments.
• Certifications are optional; depth of experience is prioritized.
• AI knowledge is not required, but independent thinking is critical.